- 1. How the Recent AI-Generated Avatar Trend Perpetuates the Western Male Gaze
- (Feminism)
- ... to the generated images being highly sexualized, she observed that she looked “like a white woman in most of the pictures.” In a racist and colorist society riddled with instances of gendered anti-Black ...
- Created on 08 December 2022
- 2. The 10 Best Feminist and Female-Centered Books of 2021 to Cozy Up With This Christmas Break, According to BUST
- (Books)
- ... about the highly gendered ways in which we think about parenthood. According to our reviewer, the book is “an absorbing book that challenges preconceived notions about what it means to be transgender and ...
- Created on 21 December 2021
- 3. What's in a Pronoun? France Muses Over The Idea of Adding Gender-Neutral Words to the French Language, But Many Wonder If That's Even Possible When So Much of The Language is Male or Femal
- (Feminism)
- ... a french non-binary cinema student, they explained their experience of being non-binary in France “I know that most of my cisgendered (people that identify with the gender assigned at birth) friends gender ...
- Created on 20 October 2021
- 4. Does "The U.S. vs Billie Holiday" Give Holiday’s Legacy The Justice It Deserves?
- (Movies)
- ... existing beyond the constraints of gendered and heterosexual norms — all of which were different aspects of Billie Holiday’s lived experience. A true radical she was, both in the spotlight and behind closed ...
- Created on 04 March 2021
- 5. "Feminism Has Gone Too Far" And Makes Life Harder For Men, According to Half of UK's Gen Z M
- (Feminism)
- You would think Gen Z men would be better right? Gen Z has been hailed as the “woke generation” from trolling Trump on TikTok to joining their predecessors, the Millennials, on the streets, protesting ...
- Created on 04 August 2020
- 6. Gucci Released A Gender-Neutral Clothing Collection, But Kinda Missed The Mark
- (Style)
- ... the addition comes after creative director Alessandro Michele’s announcement that Gucci would no longer host gendered fashion shows. They have, however, created a genderless version of their iconic 1961 ...
- Created on 27 July 2020
- 7. Your Feminism Isn't Intersectional If It Doesn't Include Prison Aboliti
- (Feminism)
- ... are acutely impacted by the prison system, finding that transgender individuals were victimized at ten times the rate of cisgendered individuals. Nine out of ten respondents to the 2015 U.S. Transgender ...
- Created on 16 July 2020
- 8. A Massachusetts City Now Legally Recognizes Polyamorous Couples
- (Feminism)
- ... good reason. So, I pulled it out, went through quickly making whatever word changes necessary to make it not gendered or limited to two people.” According to NBC Boston, the safety restrictions imposed ...
- Created on 07 July 2020
- 9. Hate Math? Thank The Patriarchy
- (Feminism)
- ... as rational/emotional are gendered so that to be feminine is to be emotional at the expense of rationality—a quality associated with mathematical ability,” Vakharia writes in her thesis. In other words: ...
- Created on 11 May 2020
- 10. Spanish Feminists Fight Government To Neutralize Bias In Gendered Language
- (Feminism)
- ... itching to start an argument with anyone who brings it up, and will brag about refusing to call someone by their preferred pronouns. How cool! Which is why the resolution to double-up gendered words, “todas ...
- Created on 22 January 2020
- 11. This Fall, Bikini Kill Reunited For A Night Of Feminist Herstory
- (Music)
- ... moment to call out the dudes who were in the front, taking up more space than necessary. "If you're a cis, white, gendered man here and you could realize how much space you're taking up here, that'd b ...
- Created on 14 November 2019
- 12. In Her Final Show, Mitski Confronted The Spectacle of Performance
- (Music)
- ... it sounds so personal.’ Yes, it is personal. But that’s so gendered. There’s no feeling of, ‘Oh, maybe she’s a songwriter and she wrote this as a piece of art.’" So on Sunday, Mitski kept her communication ...
- Created on 10 September 2019
- 13. Experts Explain How "Affinity Bias" Works Against Women At Work No Matter How Hard They Tr
- (Feminism)
- ... It’s the Workplace: Women’s Conflict at Work and the Bias That Built It, illustrates how these biases “have their roots in the gendered nature of our workplaces—workplaces that are dominated by men and ...
- Created on 27 August 2019
- 14. Sexism in Psych Wards: The Gendered Legacy of “Girl, Interrupted”
- (Feminism)
- ... or even a girl—you are simply insane. In psychiatric facilities, things that are so obviously gendered suddenly become genderless. Kaysen justifies her therapist’s suggestion of sex with him, saying that ...
- Created on 26 July 2019
- 15. "I Love You, Now Die" Director Erin Lee Carr Demystifies Teen Girlhood Through True Crime Docs: BUST Intervie
- (Movies)
- ... case. She cuts to the gendered part of the case, the “crazy, coercive girlfriend” narrative, our obsession with the archetype of the villainous young woman. I caught up with Carr to talk about the case, ...
- Created on 12 July 2019
- 16. To Hell With High Heels: Japanese Women Are Kickin' Outdated Dress Codes
- (Feminism)
- ... of adhering to Japan's especially gendered corporate culture. As stated by the Guardian, "high heels have long been seen as a female equivalent to the businessmen's necktie. They're a sartorial accessory that, ...
- Created on 07 June 2019
- 17. Is "Toxic Femininity" A Thing
- (Feminism)
- Because the nature of this question is gendered along male/female lines, there’s going to be a lot of him vs. her in this post, and if that turns you off because binary gendering is BS, I totally get ...
- Created on 04 January 2019
- 18. 16 Days NYC Is Shifting The Narrative Around Gender-Based Violence
- (Living)
- ... makes up the largest group of trafficked individuals into the US. It’s conflating issues trafficked individuals face with issues sex workers face. It’s how gendered, homophobic, and violent language is ...
- Created on 07 December 2018
- 19. It's Not Laziness, It's Toxic Masculinity: On "Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, And The Way Forwa
- (Books)
- ... partners get away with oppressive attitudes. Our romantic partners may not always understand the stark boundaries of gendered household roles, and the truth to this fact is that we even applaud the minsule ...
- Created on 30 November 2018
- 20. Gloria Steinem And Kathleen Hanna On Feminism, Riot Grrrl, And The Sexual Revolution: From The BUST Archives
- (Feminism)
- ... crimes against lesbians and transgendered people is, I think, such a huge impediment to people being able to do what they want. For everyone—straight, gay, bisexual, trans, whatever—these are things that ...
- Created on 15 August 2018
